Professor Adam Habib is the incumbent Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He delivered the keynote address entitled: Quality Assurance and Global Competiveness: A…

The financial pressures on universities make it essential to find ways to sustain a key function that has a direct bearing on society public universities are key centres for producing the capacity for innovation and knowledge creation in society, writes Wits Vice-Chancellor Professor Adam Habib in the Mail and Guardian.